Price-tag



F. KOHNLE.

PRICE TAG.

APPLICATION H LED Aue. 5. 1918.

Patented July 5, 192i.

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FREDERICK KOI-INLE, OF. DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO 'I'IEIIE MONARCH TAG COMPANY, 0F DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

PRICE-TAG. y

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented July 5, 1921.

Application filed August 5, 1918. Serial No. 248,271.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, FREDERICK KOHNLE, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Price-Tags, of which the following specification is a full disclosure.

This invention relates to tickets or tags that are used for marking goods with the sales price or with other data necessary for their identication, classification, and more particularly to the fastener means for securely attaching the ticket to the goods.

It is an object of the invention to provide a price tag with a metallic clip by which the tag is secured to the goods without perforation or piercing thereof, which is objectionable with certain forms of goods such as fine fabrics, gloves and many other articles, and which securely connects the ticket to the goods without damage or accidental removal or loss of tag.

To this end the invention consists in forming a wire clip or attaching member in a hook shape projecting from one end of the tag and of bendable or foldable material, as a soft wire,so that after the said attaching member has been primarilyclipped to the goods, such as a piece of fabric, the clip, together with the fabric may be bent or folded over together to securely connect the two, and to improve the tag fastener shown in prior Letters Patent issued to me June 18, 1912, No. 1,029,935, for tags and labels, and also to embody the tags in gang form to possess the characteristic of a gang tag strip for marking of the tags, shown in a prior patent issued to me, March 2, 1915, No. 1,130,614, for price tag.

The various features will be more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in the drawlngs like characters of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views, of which l Figure 1 is a plan view of a gang tag strip with each tag width provided with my improved fastener and projected from one end thereof. 1

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of a tag with my improved fastener clip.

Fig. 3 is a view of the tag and fastener,

similar to Fig. 2, showing a stepy in its application to the goods to be ticketed. t. F 1g. 4 shows the finished step of applicaion.

F ig. 5 is a plan view of a tag and fastener. Fig 6 is a plan view of the step shown in Fig. 3.

Fig. 7 is a plan view of the step shown in Fig. 4.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawings, 1 indicates a strip of paper, slitted or notched vwith determinately spaced parallel lateral notches 2 extending from one edge of the strip, with that portion between the notches defining the width ofthe upper portion of the tags. The notches or slits 2 each provide a shoulder as an edge of the tag for engaging` and cooperating with a feeding device of a marking machine for advancing the strip in step motion through the machines and appropriately inserting the strip for printing and securing device for' printing each tag and swinging it from the strip.

A wire fastener clip 3 is secured centrally to each tag of the strip between the notches. The clip 8 is formed of a soft wire so as to be readily foldable and bendab-le, and in its marketable form is bent to provide two parallel legs 4, 4, the free ends of which are passed through the ticket from one side of the ticket at 5 and clenched on the reverse side of the ticket as at 6. The legs are then extended parallel and outwardly from the upper edge of the ticket and converge toward one another as at 7. From the point 7 each develops into a right angled bend or loop 9 to provide la hook which may be engaged over the edgev of the goods to be ticketed, as shown in Figs. 3 and 6.

After the clip has been engaged over the edge of the goods, the fabric and clip are bent or folded to lap over the edge 0f the fabric upon itself, producing a double thickness of fabric with the loop 9 tucked between the double thickness of the fabric, as shown in Fig. 4. The fold of the fabric being approximately along the upper edge of the tip, brings the loop 9 slightly beyond or above the plane of the edge of the ticket, crimping or bulging the goods outwardly as at 10 between the legs. The fabric at the central portion of the ticket is clainped or gripped to prevent sidewise displacement,

preventing the ticket from accidentally slipping off of the goods.

Having described claim l. A ticket provided with a astener consisting of a wire of sott metal bent to provide two parallel legs, vthe :tree ends ol'" which are passed through the tag from one side and clenched upon the other side et the tag, the opposite ends of the legs converging toward each other and each terminating into a transverse hook fold connected by a circular loop, said circula-r loop, arranged to and outwardly between looped ends et the legs when my invention, l

the legs are tolded, as described, over the material, expressing outwardly the material engaged between said looped ends of the legs.

2. A ticket provided with a Pfastener con sisting ont a wire o1 soft'rnetal bent to provide two parallel legs, the free ends of which are secured to the ticket, the opposite ends of the legs each terminating with a transverse hook fold and connected with each other by a circular loop to provide a cross lip between the legs arching outwardly between looped ends of the legs when the legs are iioldeu, as described, over the material e2;- pressing outwardly the material engaged between said looped ends of the legs.

3. A new article of manufacture comprising a strip divided into tag widths by trans* verse slits eut from one edge inward, each slit providing a shoulder for cooperating with feeding devices of a tag marking machine i'or advancing the strip through the machine, and a.soft metal wire clip, one secured to each tag width between the slits, each adapted to receive the material to be tagged and to be folded therewith to securely attach the two together.

ln witness whereof, l hereunto subscribe my name, as attested by the two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERCK KOHNLE.

litnesses D. DRACHENBERG, L. Biron. 

